Chapter 480 Drawing fire from the bottom of the cauldron

Chapter 480 Drawing fire from the bottom of the cauldron

Chapter 480 Drawing fire from the bottom of the cauldron
September 1878, 9, Belgrade.

Milan Obnović, the king of the Kingdom of Serbia, returned to his country with an army of 100,000 and took power.

Shao Quanxiao was an honest gentleman and he withdrew his troops as soon as he was told to.

All the Bulgarian soldiers who occupied Serbia and Montenegro withdrew without leaving a single one behind, and they did not even ask for any money for helping Serbia restore its independence.

Obnovich returned to the palace, sat on the throne, and laughed triumphantly, "Shao Quanxiao, this fool, worked for me for nothing."

"During Bulgaria's rule, many factories were built in Belgrade. They all belong to me. I want to rely on the production capacity of these factories to revive Greater Serbia and unify the southern Slavic region—"

"Your Majesty, it's bad. The 100,000 troops you brought back from Corfu are all..."

Obnovich's eyes widened. "What happened?"

“They all ran away.”

Huh? They all ran away? Is it because I didn't pay them?
I haven't received the money yet, why are you in such a hurry?

Well, His Majesty the King is not in a hurry, but the soldiers are very anxious, and this is indeed the reason.

"Your Majesty, it's not just because they haven't been paid. If they haven't been paid, the soldiers can probably wait. They've all gone home to divide the land."

His Majesty the King had a question mark in his head, "What land is divided?"

"When Bulgaria occupied this place, all the wealthy people here fled to avoid the Austro-Hungarian army. In order to stabilize the people's hearts, the Bulgarians distributed the land to the people."

"They left some land for the soldiers to share if they came back, but if they didn't, they would lose it, so the soldiers all ran away."

Ah this——

This won't do. That's the land of the Serbian nobles and landlords. All of them have come back with me now. How can I explain this to my subordinates?

"No, issue an imperial decree. Now the owner of the land has returned. You must spit out what you ate from me and return what you took from me. These poor bastards are rebelling."

"We have no soldiers, what should we do if they don't listen?"

"Recruit soldiers from the citizens. Oh, and ask the factories to give me money."

"Report, bad news, those factories have rebelled collectively."

"I didn't steal their money. I was just collecting taxes. Why are you rebelling?"

"The factory is full of Fenian gang members left behind by the Bulgarians. They said that only by joining the 'Economic Mutual Exchange Association' can we get business orders and make stable profits. If you go against Bulgaria, the factory will be disbanded."

"Report! Factories and farmers have come to your palace to ask for instructions. I heard that Slovenia, Bosnia, Croatia, and Montenegro have announced that they have joined the Southern Slavic Federation established with Bulgaria as the core."

"If you don't join, they will choose another king to join."

"This is outrageous, someone come——"

"Report, there's no one left, they all ran away. Do you still need to suppress them, except for your personal guards?"

There were deafening shouts coming from outside the window. Obnovich leaned over the window to look. Damn, tens of thousands of people came.

Looking back, I saw a company of private guards behind me.

"Come here, announce to the people that I will immediately apply to join the Southern Slavic Federation."

Uh, Your Majesty is still smart...

On October 1878, 10, the newly built Bulgarian Royal Palace was magnificent. The kings and grand dukes of the southern Slavic countries gathered together to elect Bulgarian Tsar Shao Quanxiao as the head of the Southern Slavic Federation.

When the new federation was established, it immediately joined the Economic Interchange Association and became a member of the Huaxia Convention Society. Economically, it was brought under the unified management of the Daxia Project Investment Committee.

…………Vienna, Schönbrunn Palace, Shao Quanzhong ended his return visit to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and prepared to return home.

Princess Sissi was radiant and she took His Majesty Rudolf to see Shao Quanzhong off reluctantly.

Rudolf took Shao Quanzhong's hand and said, "Uncle Marshal, you must come to Vienna often. Since I was born, I have never seen my mother have such a happy and carefree time."

Shao Quanzhong patted Rudolf on the shoulder and said, "You are a filial young man. I believe you can remain on the throne of emperor. The young Emperor Tongzhi does not have your magnanimity."

However, I can't come in the short term.

Well, after living in Schönbrunn Palace for less than two and a half months, Shao Quanzhong felt that the amount of hair on his thick forehead had become significantly less.

Now he understood why His Majesty Franz was bald, and what Count Andrassy meant by staring at his forehead with ill intent when he said goodbye to him.

Count, you are so mean. As a fellow traveler, you didn't even remind me and just watched me fall into the fire pit.

Um, can it be avoided by reminding me? Not necessarily——

…………

The big thing is done, even Quanxiao's matter has been settled, and the rest is a gentle matter.

It would not be possible to integrate an economy as large as the Austro-Hungarian Empire into the Daxia system in the short term, so Zhang Siwen would have to stay in the Austro-Hungarian Empire for a while longer.

Shao Quanzhong led the fleet back slowly. When he returned to Hailing, it was already December and winter had arrived.

Back to the familiar Qiao Garden, it’s still the best here. It was too tiring to rest in Schönbrunn Palace.

The next day, Shao Quanzhong went to Erfen Bamboo House to work, and Rong Hui and the old man of Wen's Mining appeared at the door at the same time.

Um, Shao Quanzhong accompanied Wenxiu on the first day after arriving home, and was ready to accompany Ronghui on the second day. Why did he rush to the study to find me in such a hurry? Huier was not like this before.

The old scholar from the Wen family did not dare to argue with the mistress Hui'er, so Rong Hui entered the house first.

Rong Hui entered the room and pulled Shao Quanzhong's sleeve, "Come on, follow me to Xiaoxiang Cliff."

"what happened?"

"Good news. Your investment of seven million taels in electromagnetism has finally paid off."

It’s not easy. So many years have passed. Now I think it was related to the investment call.

I invested in telephones, but it only cost me three million taels of silver, but now I have made more than one billion taels, and China Telecom is still making money.

Seven million taels of silver were invested in electromagnetic research, but there was no response at all. I even wondered if Old Mai would abscond with the money one day like Sheng Huaixuan.

"Has Old Mac achieved any results?"

"The results were not produced by Maxwell, but they were related to him. It was his student Hertz who produced the results."

Who is Hertz? Shao Quanzhong has already forgotten when he came. Let's go and take a look.

When Shao Quanzhong arrived at Maxwell's Cavendish Laboratory in Xiaoxiangya, he was dazzled. There were strange-looking devices everywhere, including a bunch of coils and other things. He had no idea what they were for, but he recognized the DC generators.

In the laboratory, there were people of different hair colors and races, including physics elites from all over the world, and each of them looked very knowledgeable.

It seems that Old Mac didn't embezzle his own funds, but he just hasn't produced any results...

Carefully bypassing a pile of complicated equipment for fear of damaging it, Shao Quanzhong was finally pulled by Rong Hui to the destination to see what Hertz, whom he had almost forgotten, had done.

(End of this chapter)